2. Vanderbilt Toastmasters club receives charter. Congratulations to the 21 chartering members of the new Vanderbilt Toastmasters club! The new-member materials arrived last week and will be distributed to everyone at the next meeting. This is the culmination of a year-long effort to grow the club’s presence at Vanderbilt. I am excited to see what the new officers will do next year, in terms of both cultivating amazing speakers who win at competitions (and job interviews and cocktail parties and dates) and staging campus-wide events that raise the club’s profile at Vanderbilt.